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Someone asked about Petunia leaving a barrier and how she was able to do so. I've hinted at it in prior chapters-its a power that is innate to her. Its why she was able to move the blood wards that Lily left behind and why no-one can find them. Its a gift that is unique to her status as a guardian and her ability to feel magic but not necessarily use it. She unconsciously desired to protect Sirius because he is family. If you have any other questions feel free to ask.

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Chapter 6

Harry's POV

When mum left us at Jasmine's, I was worried. The world seemed too large after the very odd tea time with Death experience and I was so confused. My head felt like it was stuffed with cotton. The barriers were uncomfortable and whereas Luna did seem more lucid than normal, she seemed to be walking on egg shells around me. I felt like a ticking time bomb that could go off at any minute. The shadows were uneasy because I was, but they were also trying to reassure me that everything was alright, that the Great One knew what he was doing.

I knew that I was missing something vitally important to the greater puzzle, but I also knew that I wasn't ready to know it. I remembered what it felt like when I knew too much when I was younger and now that some of it was missing or rather locked away, I felt lost and adrift, but I also felt better. It was odd and confusing and I didn't know what to think about it.

I knew that we were worrying mum, but things would settle and eventually be fine. Or that was what Luna kept assuring me of. I was still worried, but that was what I did.

Jasmine was still weary of me. I think she would always be so. She had given us a lot of information last night, but I knew she had held some things back because of Aunt Petunia. Luna and I had decided to confront her on it later in the day. Right now we just wanted to rest. We were both restless and knew that if we started to pursue things right now, it would only break down in arguments and neither one of us want that to happen. We've yet to have a real argument like most couples. Aunt Petunia explained because we were young still. Luna informed me it was because we could see possibilities and were more likely to avoid said arguments, though she assured me that we would have our moments where we couldn't stand each other, it was only natural.

Laying in bed, I tried to quiet my racing thoughts, Luna was still snuggled into my side, she was like a koala gripping a tree and I'm fairly certain she could sleep as much as one too. I smiled as I looked down at her. She had saved me, I don't know what would have happened had she not found me when she did or maybe we found each other, it didn't matter. I would never let her go.

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"Mum, we're going out for a bit, we'll be back by supper." Luna yelled through the door into her mother's lab. A room that we had been forbidden to go into on pain of death. Though I was fairly certain that the threat was pointed more towards me than Luna.

A quiet curse and a quickly muffled explosion, "Fine, just make sure to take some extra money for cab fare in case you stay out too late."

Luna smiled, "Okay, love you." She hollered back and grabbed my hand, pulling me toward the door. She stopped before opening it and her eyes went distant. I frowned as she dropped my hand and but she was grinning as she quickly opened the door, "Daddy!" she yelled as she jumped into his arms. I sighed, looks like our day of aimlessness was going to be rescheduled. I sent a shadow to Jasmine's lab. She would glare at me later, but I'm sure she would want to know her wayward husband was home with a woman who felt much older than she looked, in fact she looked impossibly young. The shadows hissed a warning to me, they did not like her at all.

I looked her over, she barely looked like she was 25, but she felt ancient. Her magic hung close to her skin, humming softly. The shadows were rising up in weary interest at this strange woman who seemed to command respect with her very presence. I was about to ask who she was when Jasmine came thundering out of her lab and grabbed my ear. "Don't do that again."

"Yeah, yeah." I muttered as I rubbed my sore ear in annoyance. I could have been mad about it, but I knew how she felt about my shadows and I did it anyway. It was not unexpected.

She looked at the unexpected and unwanted guests and her face paled at the sight of the unknown woman. "What are you doing here?" She hissed.

"Is that any way to great your mother-in-law?" She asked, her voice amused yet stern.

"Xenophilius Lovegood, why the fuck is your mother here?" She hissed as he let Luna down and she came back next to me.

"Hello wife, good to see you again. Mother has some things to discuss with the children and felt that this was the perfect time." She glared at them and muttered something unsavory under her breath but motioned for us to follow her into the den. I was just trying to figure out how old the woman was, because if she was Luna's grandmother she should have looked at least 20 years older, I knew that witches and wizards aged slower, but not that slow.

I frowned, lost in thought as Luna led me to a chair. She patted my head as I sat down and then climbed into my lap. Her father looked at us oddly, but didn't say anything. I think this was the first time I'd actually met the man, though I hoped that Jasmine had explained our relationship to her husband at some point or another, otherwise it was going to be a bit awkward.

Luna's grandmother looked at us and smiled, but it wasn't a happy smile. It was touched with bitterness and loss. She was not happy to be here. I closed my eyes and then opened them once more, my eyes seeing more than they had a moment ago. This new sight I had, was recently developed and I couldn't control it too well, it wouldn't last long so I tried to gather the information as quickly as possible.

The woman was older than she appeared, but what had kept her young appeared to be several lives that were tied to her. It gave her the illusion of youth but shortened her life span. The shadows settled once they realized that she was not cheating the Great One out of her soul, it was a familial obligation that he had bestowed upon her line. I had the feeling that the obligation would have gone to Luna upon her coming of age, but now that she was bonded to me, the obligation would go to another familial line within the clan. I assume she was a shaman of some kind, which would make sense with the gifts that Luna carried.

A headache started to bloom and I had to close my eyes for a moment. Luna put her hand to my head and the headache lessened but was still there. I sighed and smiled my thanks at her. She smiled back and leaned back against me, content that she had helped.

"Can someone please explain what is going on?" Jasmine bit out through clenched teeth. She was pissed. It didn't take special sight to see that.

"Child, I see that you are still as impertinent as ever." Luna's grandmother murmured. "We are here because I needed to see my granddaughter and the boy who took away her birthright. I also have something to give them. You may leave if you so desire, but it won't change the fact that we will be here in your house for tonight and maybe into the morrow, you will just have to deal with it." Jasmine was not happy, but she didn't say anything, just sat back in her dining room chair and crossed her arms, glowering at her uninvited guests.

"Mother, please...she is my wife and this is her home." Luna's father murmured in a failed attempt to appease his wife. She just turned her glower to her husband and turned it up a couple of notches.

"Xeno, you are not helping. Madam Lovegood please continue so that you may get out of here faster."

"No need to be impertinent child. I will leave when its time, not a minute sooner." The woman shot back to Jasmine and then turned to look at us. She laughed, "In my day it was seen as inappropriate to sit on a man's lap, no matter your age." Luna gave her a look and she laughed again, "No need to move child. I have seen and done far worse, you need not worry that you offend an old woman's sensibilities."

"Why have you come?" I asked as it seemed that Luna did not wish to speak.

"My son tells me that his daughter bonded a boy barely older than herself, she had little choice because her magic was driving her into insanity and it looks like it was doing the same to you." I nodded to her. "Well I was curious. In all of my days and the days of those tied to me, I have never heard of such a thing, unless there was a catalyst involved and if that were true, then I am afraid that it is very much my business to look into the matter as it is what I was charged with upon the death of my predecessor."

"My mother was a catalyst."

"Once a catalyst, always a catalyst even in death. Your mother most likely had fail safes in place upon her death. Its the basic, well for wont of a better word, 'programming' of a catalyst to make sure that their 'view' of the future happens. But that doesn't mean it has to happen."

I frowned at the woman. "What makes you think I don't want her future to happen?"

"This path you are on now, leads to nothing but pain and suffering and blood, there is so much blood that is going to be spilled."

I looked at her and Luna laughed, "Grandmother, we already know this. We have seen it happen and we know its going to, but what we are doing is going lead us to through the path of least resistance. So why are you here? Here to warn us away from a path we have no desire to derive from? To warn us about the follies of our youth and choices? Please, we had seen more in our few years than you can possibly comprehend. Lily knew what the end game was, so she put into place her fail safes to make sure that her son would survive. That is the only thing that Lily wanted in the end. Ask her yourself. You're connected through the spirit plane so you would be able to possibly reach though she would most likely raze you and everyone connected to you for your impertinence. You have no idea why you are truly here, other than an ancient obligation of familial duty that you don't even understand."

She did not appreciate being told this and went to say something but I interrupted, "The shadows do not like you, if you threaten my wife or my librarian than I will release them and let them raze you. The Great One would not begrudge me, he couldn't even if he wanted to. You came here to give us a warning, well you will not be headed in this case. You may not like it, but the world is going to burn and we are going to be there to make sure it happens. That is our end game. But what you don't seem to understand is that from the ashes of a world that is going to tare itself apart, because rest assured its going to happen, a new world will rise and things will get better. People like you will try to stop us, but you won't be able to."

"You are an arrogant child, much like your mother."

I laughed, "Did you ever meet my mother? Trust me when I say that she was not, now my fathers, they had arrogance enough for them all. My mother knew what to do and how to do it. She sacrificed everything for what she wanted and I am the end result, so I am going to make sure that what she started succeeds, because that is what we want and you cannot stop us. Call us arrogant if you'd like, but you have no idea what we are capable of." Luna got up and I stood. She moved back and the shadows started to wrap around me. Jasmine did not move but Luna's grandmother cursed and jumped back. Luna's father looked between us in confusion. But moved back at the prompting of his daughter.

"What the hell are you?"

I laughed and it echoed. I knew that I looked like a shadow myself. "I am what my mother made me, what I was born to be, she was the Great One's catalyst but I am the Great One's master." With that proclamation a wall fell and I remembered hunting the horcruxes and destroying them, the desperation I felt at the end. Dying and then living and then becoming the Master of Death and watching another war break out and watching them all die, everyone that I cared about. There was heart-breaking desperation behind what she did. Without my permission Luna had sent the memories of my life back through time. It wouldn't have been possible if not for that fact she had been tied to her familial lines and since she was tied to the past because of the familial obligation she had been able to reach my mother since she had also been tied to the potential catalysts of the past. She changed everything and lost her sanity and I paid a price of blood and life. There was more, but I wasn't allowed to know yet and I raged for a moment but I did understand that I wasn't ready for the information and Luna was certainly not ready to know that she had played vital role in what had happened with my mother. Before I could even ask for the wall, it was put into place and time resumed around me. The shadows drew back and I was myself again.

I looked around the room. Jasmine had moved from her seat and held Luna in her arms. She was out cold and I glanced at her in concern but Jasmine indicated that I should look to the other side of the room. Luna's father had pressed himself against the wall and her grandmother had blood running from her eyes and ears. She was pale and her eyes were glassy. I looked at her with concern and moved to check on her but she shook herself out of it and looked at me with awe.

"The clan will stand behind you. Son its time to prepare. We must go now. But first, I came to give you this." She held her hand out and within it was a ring. I took it and she explained, "When the times comes, you may call upon our warriors. You will both train with them. To lead you must be able to do, that was why I came today. But first you had to past the test and you did. I also bring you a message from your mother." I looked at her blankly as she handed me a sealed letter.

"As much as I am impressed by her foresight, I am glad that I did not know her well and only ever met her the one time. She was terrifying." I said nothing as she wiped the blood off her face before she continued, "You start school in a few weeks. I would like for the two of you to come to the camp so that we may start your formal training. It will not be easy, but it will benefit you in the long run."

"I will discuss it with my aunt and we will let you know by owl."

"That is agreeable." She walked to the door with her son by her side.

"Don't come back here. I will not allow you back into my home." Jasmine murmured as she lifted her sleeping daughter from their position on the floor. Her husband looked resigned but he nodded and his mother just looked at her and gave her a small nod. I briefly wondered if she meant them both and realized that I cared not for the answer. It wasn't my business and I was far more concerned about Luna.

Once the uninvited guests had left, Jasmine sighed and placed Luna on the couch. She settled and continued to sleep.

"What happened?"

Jasmine snorted, "When the shadows rose up, Luna passed out. I'm guessing that had something to do with you? She didn't seem surprised.." She was trying not to get angry.

"I was reacting to what the shadows perceived as a threat and perhaps reacted a bit harsher than I probably should have. I barely stopped myself from killing her, but I did and at the moment that is all that really matters." I told her calmly. I didn't want to speak about the memories. It was far too soon for something like that and I knew that wasn't something she wanted to get involved with. And if I discussed it with anyone right now than Luna would be able to read it from their surface thoughts and if Death was correct than her still very fragile sanity would not be able to handle it.

She sighed and settled on the floor next to the couch, "Kid you try my patience on a good day, on a day like this, I just want to strangle you. Answer me this, is my daughter safe with you?"

I looked at her tired face and saw the root of the issue, Jasmine hated the shadows and hated the fact that I was magically bound to her daughter, but the very least I could do was assure her. "I won't take her away from you, that was never my intention. I will protect her with my life. She is as safe with me as she is with you. Maybe even safer." I sighed. "I can't promise that we won't get into trouble. We are going to be drawn to danger as much as it is going to be drawn to us. We are going to go to war one day. But at least we have time to prepare and that is something my mother never really had, but she was able to give it to us."

She just looked at me, though she seemed a bit sad but didn't say why and I didn't press. After a moment of somewhat awkward silence, she spoke, "Are you going to open that?"

I looked down at the letter. It was addressed to both Aunt Petunia and myself. "Not now, it wouldn't be right. I can wait a while longer." I gave her a small smile and she just huffed. I sighed and slid down the wall.

Death had allowed one of the barriers to drop, one I had not thought he would give me so soon. I looked at my hands and saw the smoothness of youth. It suddenly hit me that I was only 11, I felt more like my old self which was very disconcerting. Our world had ended in a blaze of agony before I had reached my 30th year. I was smart only because I had the knowledge that I had gathered for the last 30ish years thrown into a child's body that could barely handle it, hence the reason I had been going crazy before I'd met Luna. But because I had been so young, my mind had reorganized itself and I eventually adjusted. The barriers would fall, everything I was would come back, but I would be so much more than I had been, both my mother and my wife had seen to it. It could even be the edge that we would need.

I looked at Jasmine who sat quietly near her daughter. I had never gotten to know her in the past. She had died before I had known Luna and when I saved her, that caused a ripple but it seemed that all it really did was give Luna a secondary support system apart from Petunia and myself. She was far closer to her mother than her father in this present and I didn't see that as a bad thing. I remember her father's betrayal and Luna had never forgiven him for that. I gave a small smile at Luna's sleeping form. She may not be completely sane, but that was okay. Back then she had been a force to be reckoned with, forged through the terrors of war. The power that she had carried from being tied to her familial lines had been awe inspiring and terrifying.

She had taken over for her grandmother shortly after we had married and man hadn't that confused people. Most thought I would have ended up with the red-head, but I had never loved her in the way that I loved Luna. She had taken to the power like a fish to water and shortly after that our world crumbled around us and she learned how to use it to her advantage. It had been both beautiful and horrifying. I had loved Luna and stood by her, even when she made decisions that I had not agreed too.

Looking back on what I could remember, I was rather relieved that I couldn't remember it all. I knew that I was missing large chunks of vital information, and as much as it annoyed me, I was also okay with it. I trusted Death would give me the rest of the memories when the time was right. It was imperative for not only Luna's sanity but mine as well. I accepted that I wasn't ready to know some things. I was enjoying this small bit of peace we had before we truly had to start preparing for the war that was going to come whether we wanted it or not and we did.

At the moment, the most present concerning thing that I was worried about was Luna's apparent fragile psyche. Luna was fragile and her sanity was a fleeting thing, even in the now. I knew know that part of it was her own fault but it was a price I knew that she would pay ten times over. I would have done the same. I would keep her safe, that was a promise that I did not take lightly. I looked over at my mother-in-law. She had rested her head next to her daughter's and seemed to be sleeping. She probably had stayed up all night working again.

She was the Librarian. She was one of my protected. Essentially since I had saved her life, I was her lord. I think she knew that, it was probably why she reacted so violently around the shadows, but that was a problem for another day.

For now I just needed to assimilate all of the information I now had and attempt to organize it and then accept the fact that I was 11 years old again. I sighed and closed my eyes. I hoped my aunt was having a better day than myself.

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